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Public waves allow wave users to publish and share their waves with other Google Wave users, and hence allowing everyone to contribute and make changes in the wave

Accessing public waves

To access public waves, you will need to enter the following keyword, in the search box

with:public

To search public waves, you can use a with:public following by the search string, for eg.

with:public Chennai

Will return all public waves with the keyword Chennai

Accessing public waves

Making a wave public

In order to make a wave public and to grant access to everyone, you will need to give access to the user called public@a.gwave.com. In the add contact screen , fill in public@a.gwave.com and Press “Enter”, even if the submit button is not activated, the public user will be added to your account. This looks like a bug in the wave system, expecting Google to fix it soon.

Once this user is added, any waves published along with this user will be available in public domain.

At last I got my Google wave account activated yesterday, but it didn’t carry any additional invites that can be passed on to others. Its a bit tricky if it doesn’t carry additional invites, since you wont be able to share and evaluate this technology with others. Please take a look at some of the Screenshots of Google Wave.

Google Wave Homepage

A Public Wave

The Wave API will allow plug-in developers to develop extensible plug-ins. Sudoko plug-in was quite interesting. So was the Google Maps plug-in, the live connectivity was just too good.

Playing Sudoko in GW

GW Error Messages

Google Wave Extensions

On a overview, Google wave seems to show the light of how the next generation of communications will look like. This technology has the prospect to replace email altogether (am i hyping it too much ??). But on an overview i am not able to define Google wave properly, yes it is a collaboration platform, but its a mix of email, instant messaging, blogs and other things. I will not term Google wave as a social networking platform/tool, because this is more sort of a communications platform, more to do with interactions and collaboration, and real time information exchange (more reason being, it could attract an access ban by employers, if termed so.. he he ). I will take a look at API’s now, and will try to post if i am able to build something out of it.

Last week, one of the developer in my office was talking about Google Wave, although I had heard about wave before, I thought it was just a social networking tool just in lines of flock , more to do with service integration (assumption is the biggest evil). but only until i saw this small(but long) video about Wave on Google I/O did i realize .. that this technology has the potential to bring a change in the way we communicate, interact and do things with the internet.

Look at this video

This is too cool

I am anxiously waiting to get my wave invite..